Gamelan Pacifica

Gamelan Pacifica is an American gamelan Cornish College of the Arts ensemble in residence, formed as a community group in 1980.[1][2][3] The instruments were built by composer-builder Daniel Schmidt using aluminum. It is a Javanese style iron and bronze double gamelan (in pelog and slendro) (Suhirjan and Tentrem); Cirebonese slendro bronze (Tentrem).

Their repertoire is traditional, with a focus on Central Javanese style; also modern and contemporary compositions from within the international gamelan repertoire. For example, their album Nourishment contains an arrangement of Philip Glass's Glassworks (1982) "Opening" movement, Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese Gamelan (1982), pieces by three other composers, as well as traditional pieces.

They have performed a just 11-limit tuning pelog scale using harmonics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15, used in the first movement of Lou Harrison's Scenes from Cavafy (1980) while the second movement uses a slendro based on the 7-limit intervals 8/7 and 7/6.[4]

See also

References
  1. Benary, Barbara; Jody Diamond; Richard North; Marc Hoffman. "Gamelan Groups in the USA". American Gamelan Institute. Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  2. Diamond, Jody; Benary, Barbara (2001). ""Indonesian music," In The United States and Canada.". In Koskoff, Ellen (ed.). The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music and Dance. 3. pp. 1011–1033.
  3. Gamelan Pacifica: Profile Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. (2010). "Liner Notes", Scenes from Cavafy: Music for Gamelan album, p.5-6.


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